“It is more difficult to recognize the work that has been done to reduce violence and build peace in Zacatecas. David Monreal has done that, that’s why I give him my greatest recognition,” he said when inaugurating Family Medicine Unit 58, in the municipality of Guadalupe.
Sheinbaum assured that Zacatecas is the entity where the greatest decrease in intentional homicides has been recorded.
“It has been an extraordinary effort, it is the state where homicides have decreased the most in the entire country.
“When there are episodes of violence, of insecurity, the media is filled with this news, but it is rarely recognized when there is serious, constant, disciplined work,” the president insisted at the ‘Meeting with the People of Zacatecas’ at the Plaza de Armas this Sunday.
In Zacatecas there is a rate of 22.96 intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants from January to September 2024, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), above the national rate of 17.20 per 100,000 inhabitants.
David Monreal, who has governed Zacatecas since 2021, received the entity with a homicide rate of 98.16 per 100,000 inhabitants at the end of that year.
Fresnillo, a city in Zacatecas, is the third entity where the highest proportion of its inhabitants feel unsafe, with 87.9%, surpassed only by Tapachula, Chiapas, with 91.9%, and Naucalpan, State of Mexico, with 88%, according to the National Urban Public Security Survey (ENSU) of the INEGI for the third quarter of 2024.
